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two faint darker fasciae, rarely entirely ferruginous), the cinereous 



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spots (except in R. arcuatus) somewhat regularly distributed. 

 e 3 . Prothorax with scattered cinereous spots. 



a 4 . Rostrum short ; antennal scape and funiculus subequal in length . 

 A 4 . Rostrum longer ; antennal scape longer than the funiculus . . . 



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, Prothorax uniformly flavo-cinereo-pruinose ; elytra with scattered 

 cinereous spots, those along the suture smaller and closely packed 

 black or ferruginous, variegate, the prothorax (the median vitta 

 excepted) and elytra sometimes entirely rufescent (wholly black in certain 



Species 23, 24. 

 Species 25-35. 



Species 36. 



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cinereous spots 



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A 2 . Prothorax at the sides and the elytra on the disc (in fresh specimens) 



more or less lineate or reticulate with cinereous or white, the outer 



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and elytra with velvety-black stripes, the sides of the former 



lineate, and the disc of the latter sharply maculate, with white . . . 



P. Prothorax variable in colour; elytra broadly (or narrowly) rufo-vittate 



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Species 38. 



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Species 39. 



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Elytra each with a black spot on the disc 

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Species 40. 

 Species 41. 





the others mar- 



Species 42-45. 



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... „ Prothorax rufous, with one or two submarginal spots and a median vitta 



(sometimes reduced to one or two spots) black ; elytra (except in dark 

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Species 46-50. 





b. Posterior femora extending: beyond the tip of the pvgidium ; body fusiform, 



ferruginous, the prothorax with a median line, and the elytra each with a 



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ow oblique submedian fascia, black Species 51. 











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& ate, subfusiform, robust, opaque above, black, pruinose ; tbe elytra with a transverse fascia of 

 variable width at the base sanguineous or ferruginous, the median third velvety-black, and the apical 

 portion bluish-grey, like the prothorax, legs, and under surface. Rostrum very stout, about as long as 

 the prothorax, strongly bowed from the moderately widened, rather long, closely punctate, sulcate basal 



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, the apical portion almost smooth in the $ and finely punctate in tne <5 , tne long sulcus aoove 

 continuous with the deep frontal fovea, the peduncle of the submentum with a stout tooth-like prominence 

 in front in the cj , this being subobsolete in the $ . Prothorax subcorneal, about as long as broad, 



deeply bisinuate at the base, broadly excavate on the disc posteriorly, sparsely, finely punctate. Scutellum 

 large, triangular, flattened. Elytra moderately elongate, somewhat rapidly narrowing from the rounded 

 humeri, finely punetate-striate, the striae apparently deeper and more coarsely punctured on the rufous basal 



n of the surface, the interstices obsoletely uniseriate-punctate, somewhat convex at the base. 

 Pygidium coarsely punctate, and with a prominent, setulose, median ridge. Beneath very sparsely and 



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